10: Chapter 10: The World Stone

"The three hundred and eighth sacrifice." Tuaner's voice came from behind.

Mia turned around and saw her friend floating in mid-air, with countless vein-like threads extending from the hem of her skirt, connecting to the mummified corpses. "It's a pity you aren't the good girlfriend who originally competed with me for men..."

Mia suddenly smiled, pressing her blood-stained right hand onto the altar—where demonic inscriptions identical to those in the previous dungeon were carved.

"The Crimson Queen once said..." She let her right eye turn completely blood-red. "The curses of high-ranking demons are always two-way."

(If you could successfully change class to a Warlock, their mentor would tell you the same thing. Ah, right, you can't, haha.)

Mia's [Painful Gaze] collided with the red ripples released by the heart, and system notifications flooded the screen:

Mental resistance check: Weak.

Suffered backlash from using [fragment of the nail of longinus]...

Amidst the excruciating pain, she saw a kaleidoscope of memories—Luo Yu being torn apart by demons in the Dark World, Mia having her throat pierced by an arrow in a Goblin cave; the screams of the two souls overlapped.

(Corruption level exceeded the 60% threshold)

[Activated: Painful Gaze]

Tuaner's body suddenly stiffened, and the vein-like vines on her neck suddenly surged, piercing back into her own eye sockets.

The floating heart cracked open, revealing the soul of the true Li Qianzhou curled up inside.

"Your boyfriend's heart..." Mia stood up, coughing blood, and pulled a rusty iron nail from a corpse at the edge of the altar. "Lend it to me."

With 8 points of Agility and 11 points of Stamina, she managed to drive the iron nail into the floating heart before collapsing from exhaustion; the entire manor let out a scream like a living creature.

All of Li Qianzhou's demonic minions, countless black shadows seeping from the walls, lunged at Mia, but were blocked by a suddenly erupting blood-red barrier—the phantom image of the Crimson Queen appeared abruptly behind Mia, mysterious and eerie.

"In the name of a Holy Priest..." She drove the iron nail hard into the center of the heart, and the rust suddenly shone with silver light. "Dispel all filth in this place!"

The moment the silver light exploded, Mia dazedly saw three shadows: a blood-covered Mia with a Slime wrapped around her head sneering; a Mia in holy white robes tearfully holding up a cross; and the third shadow... was the decaying Luo Yu, head bowed in silence.

—In the end of the stalemate, Mia (Luo Yu) still won.

Before the consciousness of the Original Owner dissipated, he saw Mia's kaleidoscopic memory fragments—the first time at kindergarten, the first time a neighbor praised her for being pretty, the first time someone scolded her saying she would grow up to be a vixen because she was so pretty, the first time she danced on a streaming platform, the first time she felt a little Envy that Tuaner had a good boyfriend...

He suddenly tasted a hint of saltiness—it was tears, sliding down "her own" cheeks.

A bone claw suddenly reached out from the ground and grabbed her ankle.

"Come down and keep us company..." 307 voices whispered in unison, "You hypocritical Succubus..."

When the bone claw grabbed her ankle, Mia gritted her teeth.

"Let's leave everything to my unreliable luck!"

She used the mutated [Healing Spell] on the heart; after the skill mutation, the effect became [Flesh Proliferation].

The Blood Rose heart suddenly expanded deformably, tearing through some of the vascular bindings. She poured all her remaining mana into the iron nail, launching a suicide attack.

Damage calculation: fragment of the nail of longinus special attack against evil × 3, 200 mana converted to 40 true damage, Critical Hit! Weakness Penetration!

The moment the heart burst, the entire space began to collapse. She saw small text appearing on the silver nail—[Saint's Relic • fragment of the nail of longinus].

At the last moment before the white light engulfed her vision, she seemed to hear a long, lingering sigh, "Live on, carrying my share as well, even if you become a demon..."

Inside the private space of Paradise Lost, healing fluid slid down Mia's neck. She opened her eyes abruptly, gasping for air, as if she had just escaped from a hallucination of drowning.

[Real-world dungeon "Rose Manor" forcibly terminated]

[Obtained: Saint's Recognition (Hidden Achievement)]

[Current corruption level: 60% (Permanent). Setting aside your stubbornness about thinking you are Luo Yu, you are basically Mia now.]

(What's so good about a Slime, or perhaps you liked that corpse that looked like a broken ragdoll when you had your own man?)

What shocked her even more was the new passive skill added to her status bar:

[Faith Conflict: When using a holy skill, there is a 50% chance to convert it into a dark variant (e.g., Healing Spell → Flesh Proliferation)]

(Friendly reminder from the Life Support System: The host has currently been locked onto by the Countess of the Dark World. Also, I forgot to tell the host that you were already locked onto by Azmodan earlier. You were mistaken for the poor sap who killed the Queen of Pain. Happy? Surprised?)

[Warning: Host's vital signs have recovered, but soul damage is still being repaired.]

[Corruption level: 60% (Stable)—Warning: Permanent corruption threshold, personality fixation rate 99.7%]

[Task rewards are being calculated...]

In her storage space, there was an extra rusty iron nail and a withered black rose. The nail's attributes were all question marks, and the rose's description had only one sentence: "She will eventually return!"

Mia looked down—the nun's outfit on her body seemed to have been called upon; it was soaked in blood, and her right palm was still tightly clutching a rusty iron nail, the faint holy power remaining on it merging with the blood, emitting a sizzling, corrosive sound.

[Detected aura of a Worldstone fragment...]

[Adventurer was drawn into a real-world dungeon due to force majeure, and the dungeon level severely exceeded the Adventurer's tolerance. It is known that the worn clothing is stained with the light of a Saint's relic and Succubus blood. Because the original ownership belongs to the Adventurer, the prerequisite for wearing the equipment is removed. Limited to this set only, soul-binding for non-tradable status is performed.]

[Mutated into Paradise Lost System equipment, equipment attributes are as follows]

The system prompt paused for a moment, then, as if forcibly corrected by an external force, the mechanical voice became calm and deliberate.

[Equipment Data Panel - [profane pure white nuns outfit]]

Rank: B+ (Growable Saint's Relic/Cursed Hybrid Equipment)

Binder: Mia (Soul Compatibility 92%)

[Base Attributes]

Defense Value: 35 (Lightweight silk + Dark-woven magic-resistant lining)

Mobility Modifier: +15% Evasion Rate (High-slit skirt design allows for combat kicks)

Mental Resistance: +30% resistance to Holy-type debuffs (False Piety); +20% effect on Charm-type skills (Judged by the system as "homologous amplification")

[Equipment Component Details]

[Hypocrite's Waistband]

Conceals a miniature blood bag on the side (stores blood of the crimson queen)

Passive skill [Pain Conversion]: When HP is below 30%, automatically converts 10% of damage into mana (When the effect triggers, the waistband will ooze rose-shaped blood beads)

[Forbidden Leg Ring · Left]

Material: Blessed demonic leather (faded Bible text engraved on the surface)

Tactical Slot: Can be inlaid with [fragment of the nail of longinus] x1 (Current status: Loaded)

Special Effect: Adds 5 points of true damage during leg attacks (Nail piercing effect)

[Twin Cross Pendant (deaths white moonlight)]

Surface: Ordinary silver cross (disguise form for streaming)

True form: Crushing it reveals [Crimson Queen's heart fragment] (Limited to 1 use per day, triggers 3 seconds of invincibility + 20% lifesteal)

[Set Effects]

[Profane Aesthetics] (2 pieces activated): When clothing damage reaches 40%, all healing effects are reversed into area poison damage.

[Seven Deadly Sins · Lust] (4 pieces activated): Damage dealt to Charmed units is increased by 50%, while the corruption level increase rate is x2.

[System Notes]

"In the archives of the Church Inquisition, this garment is codenamed 'The Bride's Mourning Dress'. It allows you to simultaneously receive the favor of gods and the kiss of demons—of course, both gifts will cost you your life."

(Can evolve into A-rank [Blood Rose Convent Robe] after equipment resonance reaches 100%)

[The next dungeon will be matched in fifteen days; the host needs to rest in Paradise Lost for twenty-four hours before returning to the real world.]